Two more women have died after using the abortion pill RU-486, regulators said Friday in a warning that brought renewed calls for pulling the controversial drug off the market....
The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors to watch for a rare but deadly infection previously implicated in four deaths of women who had taken the drug. The drug, also called Mifeprex or mifepristone, has not been proved to be the cause in any of those cases.
The women did not follow FDA-approved instructions for the pill-triggered abortion, which requires swallowing three tablets of one drug, followed by two of another two days later.
Instead of swallowing the final two tablets, the second course of pills was inserted vaginally in the four women, an ''off-label'' use that studies have shown effective and that has been recommended by most of the nation's abortion clinics. Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. said it would stop recommending vaginal insertion of the final course of pills.
Abortion advocates once again putting abortion effectiveness first over the health of women. Media silence is broken, hit all the papers today, but it had to take more deaths do it. This is toxic shock with no temperature, and you're dead. Earlier posts: Don't Ask, Don't Tell; Abortion Pill Suspect. Just to clarify, this is not the morning-after pill. And toxic shock is rare, but deadly, so RU-486 kills not just the fetus, but may kill the woman.
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